You know you work nights when.......

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The conversation with coworkers each night starts with "I got x amount of sleep today..."

Specializes in insanity control.

when your answering machine says

"You have reached 907-852-xxxx. If you are calling before 2030 Oklahoma time or 1730 Alaska time, this call WILL NOT be answered. You know who you called and you know what to do. Talk to you later." :uhoh3:

or

Your kids and SO know to ask if you have been up right for at least 30 min :uhoh3: , had a coke ;) , and smoked a cig :balloons: before asking for permission or telling you anything

or

kids warn their friends that mom becomes evil reincarnated :angryfire if you call or come by before 5:30 pm

or

your family knows that if they want to do anything with you it has to be at 8 am or after 6 pm

or

your hubby and kids have woke you up at 2 pm :angryfire and you have retailated by running the vacumm cleaner at 2 am :D to make your point

or

you go wake your mother up at 2 am to go to wally world cause she thought at 2 pm you should be awake to go with here :idea: and you have only worked nights for 15 years

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Specializes in CCU,ICU,ER retired.
I thought I was the only one who had ever called up family at (what they considered) an ungodly hour just to make a point. :lol2:

I called my exMIL up at 4 AM one morning to ask about borrowing some flour because she would routinely call me despite repeated, and increasingly rude, requests not to call until 6 PM.

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I have done this to everyone I know that calls me in daylight hours. I call them at 2:00-4:00 in the morning. Nobody calls my house before 5-6 pm even though I am retired

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When You Wear Sweats To Bed So You Can Get Up Right Away Without Changing And Start Being Thr Taxi Service For The Kids

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Specializes in CCU, SICU, CVSICU, Precepting & Teaching.
when all the missionaries--even the jws---leave you strictly alone because you've flung the door open when they've interrupted your sleep, murder in your eye, hair wild, and shrieked "this place better be on fire!"

true story.

when the name tag on your apartment mailbox says "day sleeper with a gun"

true story.

a former co-worker of mine was awakened by his dog's frantic barking and howling in response to the doorbell. he shouted at the dog to shut up, and laid back down to try to sleep. since his bedroom is over the front door, and it was summer in seattle (no a/c) he was able to hear, through the open window, giggling at his front door. the doorbell promptly rang again, and the dog promptly went ballistic in response. he shouts at the dog to shut the f**k up, and lies back down. more giggling from outside.

the fourth time the doorbell rang, joe flings the door open, dressed in his sleeping attire (old jocky shorts with his ample belly prodtruding over the top), hair standing on end and a murderous expression on his face, carrying his shotgun. jacking a shotgun makes a truly distinctive (and frightening under the right circumstances) sound. two jw's ran away as fast as their little legs could carry them, and never went back to his house. ever.

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Ok, so today I couldn't find my eye mask. Not to worry, a pair of black cotton underpants sufficed.

:rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: Hey!! Would you send me a picture of that?

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Specializes in FNP, Peds, Epilepsy, Mgt., Occ. Ed.

a former co-worker of mine was awakened by his dog's frantic barking and howling in response to the doorbell. he shouted at the dog to shut up, and laid back down to try to sleep. since his bedroom is over the front door, and it was summer in seattle (no a/c) he was able to hear, through the open window, giggling at his front door. the doorbell promptly rang again, and the dog promptly went ballistic in response. he shouts at the dog to shut the f**k up, and lies back down. more giggling from outside.

the fourth time the doorbell rang, joe flings the door open, dressed in his sleeping attire (old jocky shorts with his ample belly prodtruding over the top), hair standing on end and a murderous expression on his face, carrying his shotgun. jacking a shotgun makes a truly distinctive (and frightening under the right circumstances) sound. two jw's ran away as fast as their little legs could carry them, and never went back to his house. ever.

that is too funny. :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl:

don't blame him a bit.

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Specializes in Neuro/Med-Surg/Oncology.

When your neighbor wants to leave the kids with you @ 3:15 pm after school everyday, but seems kind of reluctant to return the favor @ 05:00am when you work nights and hubby starts @ 06:15 am. :angryfire:

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Specializes in Peds; Peds Oncology.

Agree with everything so far!!

-All of us were so excited when they built a Hard Rock Casino down the street - because they always serve booze.

-The awning over my bedroom windows haven't been up since Hurricane Andrew came through (1992!!)

-I always say "good night". Don't like it...I could say something else.

-My inlaws used to call me specifically to babysit...knowing that I was sleeping and that I wouldn't object or remember.

-All of the teachers at my kids school knew I worked nights, and if I wasn't there to pick them up...keep calling or just drop them off.

-Youngest DS's Prek4 teacher wouldn't call my house AT ALL and told DS that he wouldn't want to wake me up.

-My 3 boys (who are now very well trained) have always known that waking up Mommy was NEVER a good thing to do.

-Everyone I know has seen me in PJ's. And...I don't care.

-Almost forgot- I CANNOT own a watch without the day and date because I would be totally clueless.

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:cry: :cry: i'm awake!!!! it's 1300. i don't want to be but my dear so thinks that i'm up by noon. :banghead: i already told him to expect a call from me at 0300 so that we can catch up!

:deadhorse will they ever learn?

they will never learn i have decided. my hubby the other day decided to nap with me (oh, how sweet). then proceeded to get out of bed every 30 mins to check various things for his work. then started wrestling with the dog, on the bed. i had to resort to screaming my head off at them. then 15 mins before i had to get up, he started wrestling with the dog again on the bed. amazingly he is still alive.

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Specializes in CCU, SICU, CVSICU, Precepting & Teaching.
they will never learn i have decided. my hubby the other day decided to nap with me (oh, how sweet). then proceeded to get out of bed every 30 mins to check various things for his work. then started wrestling with the dog, on the bed. i had to resort to screaming my head off at them. then 15 mins before i had to get up, he started wrestling with the dog again on the bed. amazingly he is still alive.

my ex- did that a few times, too -- deciding to nap with me, and then keeping me awake. he'd always bring his two labrador retrievers with him. he had restless leg syndrome, and if he didn't kick me, he'd wake me up by jiggling the whole bed until it felt as though my bedroom were possessed or something! or the dogs would try to crawl under the bed, or they'd start wrestling with each other . . . .

sometimes he'd show up at my house in the morning to "make breakfast for me" after work. (that usually consisted of him denuding my refrigerator of anything remotely edible and then lying down to "nap" with me. if his snoring didn't keep me awake, the dogs farting did!)

i sleep with a fan going for "white noise," and at that time i had an industrial-strength fan and ran it full blast to drown out the neighbors mowing their lawns. i could sleep through just about anything with enough benadryl and that fan. i did sleep through it the day the ex-bf moved into my house. no discussion -- he wanted to surprise me! wasn't that sweet? it took me months to get rid of him, and another month to get rid of his dogs! he finally moved out on christmas eve (while i was sleeping.) it was the second best christmas present i had that year! (the first best was that when i told the wonderful man who is now my husband that bf had finally moved out, he asked me out to lunch on december 26. we've been together since!)

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Specializes in ER, Cardiology, and GYN long ago.
my ex- did that a few times, too -- deciding to nap with me, and then keeping me awake. he'd always bring his two labrador retrievers with him. he had restless leg syndrome, and if he didn't kick me, he'd wake me up by jiggling the whole bed until it felt as though my bedroom were possessed or something! or the dogs would try to crawl under the bed, or they'd start wrestling with each other . . . .

sometimes he'd show up at my house in the morning to "make breakfast for me" after work. (that usually consisted of him denuding my refrigerator of anything remotely edible and then lying down to "nap" with me. if his snoring didn't keep me awake, the dogs farting did!)

i sleep with a fan going for "white noise," and at that time i had an industrial-strength fan and ran it full blast to drown out the neighbors mowing their lawns. i could sleep through just about anything with enough benadryl and that fan. i did sleep through it the day the ex-bf moved into my house. no discussion -- he wanted to surprise me! wasn't that sweet? it took me months to get rid of him, and another month to get rid of his dogs! he finally moved out on christmas eve (while i was sleeping.) it was the second best christmas present i had that year! (the first best was that when i told the wonderful man who is now my husband that bf had finally moved out, he asked me out to lunch on december 26. we've been together since!)

you spend more money on concealer for the dark circles around your eyes than you make each week...lol.

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you read all the way to the end of this thread only to then realise that you read it last night and just didn't remember.....................

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